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==History== A post office has been in operation at Horace since 1875.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=ND&county=Cass|title=Cass County|publisher=Jim Forte Postal History|access-date=October 24, 2015}}</ref> The city is named after [[Horace Greeley]] of [[Chappaqua, New York|Chappaqua]], [[New York (state)|New York]], editor of the ''[[New York Tribune]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hoheisel|first1=Tim|last2=Nielsen|first2=Andrew R.|title=Cass County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfNMWPUkLOoC&pg=PA82|year=2007|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-4145-7|page=82}}</ref> Greeley encouraged western settlement with the motto "[[Go West, young man]]".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7yhCAAAAIAAJ|title=Men and Events of Forty Years|access-date=February 13, 2009|author=Josiah Busnell Grinnell|publisher=[[D. Lothrop]]|location=Boston|year=1891|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7yhCAAAAIAAJ/page/n108 87]}}</ref> The city is bordered on the west by the [[Sheyenne River]], a tributary of the [[Red River of the North|Red River]]. To reduce damage from seasonal flooding, which sometimes was severe, the state and federal government collaborated on the Sheyenne Diversion Project, constructing a canal and associated support in 1990β1992 to move Sheyenne flood waters to the west and south of Horace, and north past the western side of West Fargo. This has proved its worth, protecting the Sheyenne cities from damage that resulted from the large [[1997 Red River flood]], which destroyed areas of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks to the north.<ref name="diversion">[http://www.westfargond.gov/Home/Departments/Public-Works/Flood-Information/Sheyenne-Diversion "Sheyenne Diversion"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161102022705/http://westfargond.gov/Home/Departments/Public-Works/Flood-Information/Sheyenne-Diversion |date=November 2, 2016}}, City of West Fargo Government website, 2016</ref>
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